Literary Narrative
The Narrator and related fiction prove Kanon can hold story, character, voice, and serialized meaning.
Projects
The proof map.
Kanon leads. The rest of the ecosystem shows the range: fiction, music, simulation, archives, tools, and service work that can stand in public without flattening the oddness out of it.
Cultural-history broadcast
In progressAmerican Frequency
A recurring broadcast-style media practice built around the songs, images, and questions of a specific moment.
Current practice: writing and recording close together to keep the performance loose. The next episode is not presented here as a finished public release.
Talk about production work
Current state
Writing
+ recording
+ edit evidence Public archival use, provenance, captions, music treatment, and release status remain separate review gates.
+ recording
+ edit evidence Public archival use, provenance, captions, music treatment, and release status remain separate review gates.
Flagship
Kanon
A worldbuilding platform, creative atlas, and self-authoring engine for writers, artists, filmmakers, game designers, musicians, and dreamers.
The current job is clarity: one beautiful first visit, three clear universe modes, one unforgettable simulation proof, and a path for creators to follow the build.
Kanon
Three ways in.
Simulation Observatory
Inamun and the orbital simulator show a world whose myths can be tested, filmed, and discovered in motion.
Archive World
Symbolic fragments, fields, artifacts, and living entries give scattered inner material somewhere structured to live.
Music technology
Signal to Stems
Signal to Stems is a working artist-built music study tool that separates audio into stems for learning, arrangement analysis, and creative reference.
It sits inside ongoing artist-led creative technology work: tools that help musicians understand and shape sound without pretending software replaces the human imagination.
- Status
- Working prototype / portfolio proof
- Use
- Rights-respecting creative practice for learning, arrangement analysis, and creative reference
- Code
- Standalone GitHub repo is live
- Demo
- Demo by request
This is portfolio proof: a working artist-built music tool connecting music, AI, software, and ethics into practical creative technology.
Index
Current public lanes.
Flagship platform
Kanon
A governed creative atlas for stories, simulations, archives, and living worlds. Kanon is Roark's primary public project right now.- world atlas
- creator portal
- orbital simulator
Serialized fiction
The Narrator
Long-form sci-fi, essays, and process writing tied to the broader Roark worldbuilding system.- fiction
- publishing
- world logic
Music technology
SignalBridge
Artist-side tools for music study, Ableton workflows, AI-assisted organization, and practical creative systems.- Ableton
- MCP
- artist tools
Working prototype
Signal to Stems
A working artist-built music study tool that separates audio into stems for learning, arrangement analysis, and creative reference.- portfolio proof
- demo by request
- rights-respecting
Public archive
The Midnight Sun
An anonymous act of witness and a numbered archive for prose, image, ritual, public signal, and memory.- archive
- street signal
- publishing
Civic prototype
Berkeley Upcycle Underground
A public Berkeley map for free street finds, repair advice, reuse, and neighbor-to-neighbor material rescue.- Berkeley
- reuse
- public map
Origin layer
Music + Sound
Bands, aliases, records, videos, live work, AV logic, and the first place the worldbuilding practice learned how to move.- songs
- performance
- recording
Collaboration lane
Creative Systems Sprint
A focused strategy/build sprint for artists, writers, musicians, and small creative teams with powerful work scattered across too many places.- maps
- websites
- launch systems